Reneo, assaulting the tower, starts his desperate march towards the lowest level and the alarm gets activated. The first attack in the history of the tower, a changing event, that the journals are already documenting to get the juiciest details about the unexpected event.

The random joe is already considering this as the end of an era, the day where the tower was put into its knees from its throne of gold, but the magnitude of it is clear just to the elites, that already selling at the lowest prices their stocks on Londar.

But Reno isn't here to prove some heavenly ideal dictated by justice, this isn't a rebellious win over the system, is a rush to victory, the goal of all these 70ish years is so close that you can even feel it, and it feels like static electricity.

Unbeknown to Reno, he's not the only motherfucker on a rush here, from two districts away a scream can be heard resonate between the streets, a scream of fear and anger:

Edeno has awakened from his sloppiness.

To give some context, Edeno belongs to a peculiar group of beings, the Ematocens, an endangered species that has now only 137 individuals left, all these beings were exterminated by the outburst of a potent pathogen, that fills the canals of the lungs with a sort of yellow protuberance that looks like a root, a population of great strategists exterminated by a overgrown bacteria, at the end of the pandemy their home planet was filled with corpses filled with puss to the point of ripping the skin, a painful death without a doubt.

Edeno after sawing that misery decided to left that land to never return, he did not bury his parents, he did not mourn his girlfriend, he just left, hoping to remove the image of that landscape as quick as possible, without releasing that he was beginning to show symptoms.

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As many ravaged immigrants he took cover under the wing of Londar as a mercenary, slowly becoming more efficient, while the pathogen was growing within him, as a reminder that you can't escape from problems that easily.

When Edeno finally noticed the symptoms, he begged the heads of Londar to help him, he cried, he screamed for his life, he did not want to die, not like that, not in any other way "fuck euthanasia" he said to himself "if I have even 1% of possibility of getting saved, I'm betting everything on it"

Londar then after all the movement, did an accord with Edeno, so they subjected the poor bastard to experimental testing, finding that a pure source of energy could destroy the roots, it wasn't able to cure the bacteria, but Edeno's death would've been postponed, and with all of this Londar lightened up their image to the public, as the savior of life, the god that rewards the efforts.

Edeno won the bet.

In the first years as head captain he was still diligent, serious, quick and his task was just 1, and pretty straight forward too "protect the tower"

But the time passes, and after nothing has even the chance to approach the tower in decades, and never had the chance to touch it in the history of Londar, he became more cocky, sloppy, slow.

But now, that the threat is real and is at his doors, he's not ready to accomplish his role as guardian, and he knows that.

So in the streets of Londar a crazy Edeno screams and says blasphemy while desperately trying to reach the tower, his vision isn't even clear, he's a bit disoriented, he goes in the wrong roads, he trips, saliva drips from his mouth, he isn't like this to protect his world, ideals or friends..but his right to live.

In retrospect Reneo is fully conscious, knows what he is there for, he is precise, he doesn't waste time, he knows that there are hidden dangers, he knows that it's everything or nothing today.

There are two men in a rush today at Londar, and they're both gambling their future.